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Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a
It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
